P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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I watch my films with my mum and other family members, you know. I also know there are thousands of women who watch my films. I don't want to set wrong examples.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good.
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The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
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Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.
